"All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."---Galileo

What
are your chances of being killed by a drinking driver?

According
to MADD, each year there are 1,100,000,000 episodes of a drinking person driving
& 123,000,000 episodes of a drunk person driving.

The
figures on the chart below equate to only 1 innocent death for every 375,000 episodes of a
drinking driver using our roads.

In
perspective, you are: 28.77 times
more likely to be killed by a sober driver
13.52 times more likely to die from a fall
8.52 times more likely to be poisoned
4.57 times more likely to die from an injury at work
3.66 times more likely to drown
2.92 times more likely to choke to death
2.34 times more likely to die while under a doctors care

INNOCENT VICTIMS of drinking drivers
at various Blood Alcohol levels (BAC)
(Does not include the drinking driver*). The legal limit in all states is BAC .08*Why exclude
the drinking drivers that were killed? MADD & our government agencies call these
drinking drivers violent criminals. That is a harsh judgment, but it is true that they are hardly innocent victims.

Innocent Victims
in 2002

BAC .01-.08

BAC .08-.09

BAC .10-.11

BAC .12-.13

BAC .14-.15

BAC .15 & up

Total
Innocent Victims

TOTAL USA

231

197

311

335

362

1493

2932

Alabama

0

1

3

3

1

24

32

Alaska

0

0

1

1

1

2

5

Arizona

3

2

9

1

8

19

42

Arkansas

5

3

10

7

6

22

53

California

42

33

35

33

53

151

347

Colorado

1

0

4

8

10

35

58

Connecticut

1

1

3

4

3

14

26

Delaware

0

0

1

0

2

2

5

District
of Columbia

0

0

0

2

1

1

4

Florida

26

33

29

34

38

152

312

Georgia

10

11

8

9

15

52

105

Hawaii

2

1

2

3

1

3

12

Idaho

0

0

1

1

0

15

17

Illinois

21

15

16

14

16

81

163

Indiana

4

4

10

7

8

33

66

Iowa

1

0

8

3

1

15

28

Kansas

1

1

4

4

0

16

26

Kentucky

10

7

7

5

6

30

65

Louisiana

3

0

13

15

3

43

77

Maine

0

3

0

3

1

3

10

Maryland

3

5

6

8

10

15

47

Massachusetts

1

2

0

2

1

8

14

Michigan

3

0

16

8

13

47

87

Minnesota

9

0

4

8

12

22

55

Mississippi

3

1

9

8

8

34

63

Missouri

5

13

5

16

14

36

89

Montana

0

0

2

5

2

17

26

Nebraska

5

6

7

1

3

11

33

Nevada

0

0

4

3

2

33

42

New
Hampshire

1

1

0

2

1

7

12

New
Jersey

2

1

2

1

4

12

22

New
Mexico

4

0

4

2

3

13

26

New
York

4

0

4

3

5

24

40

North
Carolina

9

6

6

3

4

15

43

North
Dakota

2

0

3

3

1

2

11

Ohio

0

0

13

19

18

54

104

Oklahoma

3

2

1

2

3

13

24

Oregon

5

1

4

8

1

16

35

Pennsylvania

4

0

3

6

12

51

76

Rhode
Island

0

0

0

0

0

2

2

South
Carolina

3

1

3

5

4

21

37

South
Dakota

1

3

2

4

7

12

29

Tennessee

6

3

6

8

5

30

58

Texas

21

26

18

28

28

152

273

Utah

0

4

3

2

3

15

27

Vermont

0

0

2

1

0

4

7

Virginia

3

0

1

0

1

19

24

Washington

3

6

6

6

11

29

61

West
Virginia

3

0

3

7

5

12

30

Wisconsin

1

0

7

8

5

47

68

Wyoming

0

1

3

1

2

7

14

Speeding, road
conditions, bad weather, deer, or mechanical failure may have caused the accident,
especially in the low BAC cases. These other factors are never considered by MADD in their rush to panic the public
with unrealistically high victim numbers.

Some groups would
hold a passenger who rides with a drinking driver responsible for his actions and
therefore not an innocent victim.The numbers on the chart would be even lower if those passengers who died while
riding with a drinking driver were included.Even using MADD's absurd total death figure of 18,000/year, there would be
only one death for every 61,000drinking driver episodes.

85% of the innocent
victims are killed by drivers with blood alcohol levels over .10
SOURCE: www.ridl.us . Visit this excellent website for
more accurate statistics on drinking & driving

"And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you
free."---John VII